Three categories of caricatures by Beerbohm: "Tales of Three Nations," dealing with the history of England, France, and Germany; "Various Persons and Ideas," a miscellany concerned mostly with contemporary culture; and "Studies in the Eighteen-Seventies," being portraits of eminent mid-Victorians. The color frontispiece features Benito Mussolini, and the additional color plate is a jape on the artist himself.